“We Can’t Be Friends” is a master class in how to ride backlash all the way to No. 1.
with a song co-written and fronted by a fellow Swede, a teenager who performed under the mononym Robyn. For a few months, Robyn was very successful, scaling Billboard’s Hot 100 with the back-to-back Martin-co-written singles “,” each of which peaked at No. 7. By the early 2000s, Martin had emerged as pop’s premier hitmaker, turning out even bigger hits for.
Plus, it doesn’t hurt to have Max Martin in your corner. Martin and Grande have been working together off and on for a decade now, since her 2014 sophomore albumis her first album in nearly four years, easily the longest gap of her career—and Martin and his longtime Swedish deputy”), must’ve felt like the ultimate insurance policy to get Grande back on the charts. The bonus for Martin: two more No. 1s to add to his shelf, putting him ahead of all those Beatle-related records.
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